Engaging with European Politics through Twitter and Facebook: Participation beyond the National?
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Engaging with European Politics through Twitter and Facebook : Participation beyond the National? . / Bossetta, Michael; Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria; Trenz, Hans-Jörg.
Social media and European Politics: Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era. red. / Mauro Barisione; Asimina Michailidou . London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. s. 53-75 (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Engaging with European Politics through Twitter and Facebook
T2 - Participation beyond the National?
AU - Bossetta, Michael
AU - Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria
AU - Trenz, Hans-Jörg
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political content in ways unhindered by national boundaries. We distinguish between three primary types of content styles (factual, partisan, and moral) and four degrees of engagement (making, commenting, diffusing, and listening). Moreover, we argue that differences in Twitter and Facebook’s “digital architectures” encourage certain styles and degrees of engagement over others, and that the two social platforms sustain different levels of transnational activity. Supporting our argument with European cases, we suggest that Twitter is more suitable to fulfill social media’s transnational promise than Facebook, which is better adept at stimulating political participation.
AB - This chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political content in ways unhindered by national boundaries. We distinguish between three primary types of content styles (factual, partisan, and moral) and four degrees of engagement (making, commenting, diffusing, and listening). Moreover, we argue that differences in Twitter and Facebook’s “digital architectures” encourage certain styles and degrees of engagement over others, and that the two social platforms sustain different levels of transnational activity. Supporting our argument with European cases, we suggest that Twitter is more suitable to fulfill social media’s transnational promise than Facebook, which is better adept at stimulating political participation.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Social Media
KW - European politics
KW - Facebook
KW - Twitter
KW - political participation
KW - transnationalization
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781137598899
T3 - Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
SP - 53
EP - 75
BT - Social media and European Politics
A2 - Barisione, Mauro
A2 - Michailidou , Asimina
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -
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